London – Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow for the second consecutive evening on Monday, when the Russian capital was preparing for the victory day celebrations that Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders adapted to the Kremlin should attend.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, said in a statement released Tuesday that at least 19 Ukrainian drones had been shot down to the capital of the day. Sunday evening, four other drones were slaughtered near Moscow.
Sobyanin did not report any victim or serious damage, although the debris of the drones fell on a large highway. Russian aviation authorities said thefts were also suspended in four of the capital airports.
The drones slaughtered near Moscow was among the 105 craftsmen intercepted across Russia during the night, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
Decorated Russian soldiers, participants in the military operation in Ukraine, walk towards Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the military parade of the Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on May 3, 2025.
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Ukraine continued its drone dams in Russia while the country is preparing to mark the day of victory on May 8 – the annual celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
The celebrations will take place throughout Russia, with the main event a military parade through Moscow supervised by President Vladimir Putin, the senior Kremlin officials and the world’s visit leaders – including Xi, the Biélorusian president Alexander Lukashenko, the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and the Brazilian President Lula Da Silva.
The continuous strikes of Ukraine have already forced the Russian authorities in the Crimea occupied to cancel their parade of the scheduled victory day, the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, announcing that the event would not go due to security problems, in a press release quoted by the TASS news agency managed by the State.
Last month, Putin announced a unilateral supposed that extends from May 8 to 11 to coincide with the victory-a quickly rejected proposal by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who put pressure for a complete 30-day ceasefire that he hopes to form a launch cushion for a wider agreement to end the invasion of Ukraine in Russia.
Zelenskyy said this week that Putin’s offer was part of a “theatrical performance”, suggesting “that it is impossible to build a plan for the next steps to end the war in two or three days”.
Zelenskyy also warned that kyiv could not guarantee the security of anyone traveling to attend the celebrations of the Victory Day in Moscow. “We cannot be held responsible for what is happening in the territory of the Russian Federation,” Zelenskyy told journalists, report from the Ukrainian news agency Interfax.
“They assure you security; therefore, we will not give you any guarantee. Because we do not know what Russia will do these days,” continued Zelenskyy, adding that Russia could also orchestrate provocations such as “criminal fire, bomb attacks, etc., only to blame us.”
The Russian long -range strikes in Ukraine, on the other hand, also continued for a night after Tuesday, with 11 people injured by a drone strike in Kharkiv, according to local administration Oleg Synabov.
The Air Force of Ukraine said in a telegram that Russia had launched 136 drones in the country during the night, 54 of which were slaughtered and 70 lost in flight without causing damage. Impacts have been reported in the Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, he said.
A man is represented on the “Barabashovo” market following a drone strike in Kharkiv on May 6, 2025.
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